Not sure if this is a double post - last post doesn't seem to have shown up after a couple hours?
Could you share which brand of scooter that battery came from? Do you know if all rental brands are flashing the boards to custom firmware?
I assume this is never a problem with normal external ES4 batteries directly from segway? This only happens to users with a personal scooter trying to use the rental battery?
And while we are answering my questions
- does it matter which version of firmware a personal scooter is using compared to the firmware in the batteries (either from normal or rental batteries) - like if someone is on an older firmware ES2 and tries to use a newer (but non-rental) firmware external battery?
Thanks for sharing all your videos good sir!
EDIT: just an FYI - I got two externals off ebay (around 75 USD a pop) and installed them both (not at once) on my ES2 for testing - both of them had firmware 0.1.3.6 according to the segway app, and the testing scooter had 0.1.3.9.
I always reject to update the firmware for fear of it making it slower or some other negative "update" they have done, but as far as I can tell they both work flawlessly as far as speed and charging and everything, goes to 100 percent power, and shows 4 solid white lights when the status button is pressed on the battery.
One odd thing I have noticed - is that both external batteries do not have the red lights powered on that you see in all the promotional images - not sure if that is just because of me not updating the firmware, or if there is more to it. EDIT2: Oh wait - I did not know that those lights on the external batteries only glow when the headlight is turned on! Doh!
Anyway thought I'd share what I had going on!
Listing for the battery I picked up (be sure to select "includes mounting kit" or the option with the cage as well):
https://www.ebay.com/itm/External-Batte ... 2749.l2649
(if the link is dead, the seller is "likeasummersunday" and they seemed to have 3 available at this time)